gas: macro to define string constant

[Andreas Schwab]

Massimiliano Cialdi <cialdi@firenze.net> writes:

> how to define this macro?

You need to put quotes around \value:

.macro def_str name, value
\name:
  .ascii "\value" "\r\n"
  sizeof_\name = .-\name
  .size \name, sizeof_\name
.endm

The quotes in the macro calls are stripped off during argument parsing.

Andreas.

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